Impacts of diarrhea on the immune system, intestinal environment, and expression of PGRPs in New Zealand rabbits.

abstract：:Freshwater food webs are dominated by aquatic invertebrates whose trophic relationships are often poorly known. Here, I used laboratory experiments to study the role of a water bug, Sigara striata, as a potential predator and prey in food webs of stagnant waters. Multiple-choice predation experiment revealed that Siga...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Klecka J

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies of low prevalence disease problems are often hindered by the high cost of diagnostic testing. The objective of this study was to evaluate PCR screening of both individual and pooled fecal samples from culled dairy cows for the invA gene of Salmonella followed by culture to determine if the sens...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Adaska JM,Ekong PS,Clothier KA,Williams DR,Rossitto PV,Lehenbauer TW,Atwill ER,Li X,Aly SS

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Urmia Lake, the largest natural habitat of the brine shrimp Artemia urmiana, has progressively desiccated over the last two decades, resulting in a loss of 80% of its surface area and producing thousands of hectares of arid salty land. This ecological crisis has seriously affected the lake's native biodiversity. Artem...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Asem A,Eimanifar A,van Stappen G,Sun SC

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Small interference RNA has been widely used to suppress gene expression. Three different short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) against dopamine D1 receptor (Drd1), driven by mouse U6 promoter in self-complementary AAV8 vector (scAAV8), were used to silence mouse striatal Drd1 expression. Transduction of mouse striatum with all ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ji B,Higa K,Soontornniyomkij V,Miyanohara A,Zhou X

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first comprehensive review of the present and past shark and ray diversity in marine waters of Tropical America, examining the patterns of distribution in the Eastern Central Pacific (EP) and Western Central Atlantic (WA) realms. We identified the major regions of diversity and of endemism, and explored...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Carrillo-Briceño JD,Carrillo JD,Aguilera OA,Sanchez-Villagra MR

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of passively dispersed organisms in continental aquatic habitats typically show high levels of neutral genetic differentiation despite their high dispersal capabilities. Several evolutionary factors, including founder events, local adaptation, and life cycle features such as high population growth rates an...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Montero-Pau J,Gómez A,Serra M

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Laminitis is a common equine disease characterized by foot pain, and is commonly diagnosed using a five-grade Obel system developed in 1948 using sepsis-related cases. However, endocrinopathic laminitis is now the most common form of the disease and clinical signs may be mild, or spread across two Obel grade...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meier A,de Laat M,Pollitt C,Walsh D,McGree J,Reiche DB,von Salis-Soglio M,Wells-Smith L,Mengeler U,Mesa Salas D,Droegemueller S,Sillence MN

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is intrinsically resistant to many conventional antibiotics. Therefore, alternative antimicrobial agents such as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are extensively studied to combat this issue. Our study aims to identify and understand the mode of action of the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lee LF,Mariappan V,Vellasamy KM,Lee VS,Vadivelu J

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway shows frequent aberrant alterations and pathological activation in breast cancer cells. While PI3K inhibitors have not achieved expectant therapeutic efficacy in clinical trials, and several studies provide promising combination strategies to substantially maximize therapeu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Qin H,Liu L,Sun S,Zhang D,Sheng J,Li B,Yang W

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial additive triclosan has been used in personal care products widely across the globe for decades. Triclosan resistance has been noted among Vibrio spp., but reports have been anecdotal and the extent of phenotypic triclosan resistance across the Vibrionaceae family has not been established. Here, tricl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lydon KA,Robertson MJ,Lipp EK

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal thyroid hormones (THs) are known to be crucial in embryonic development in humans, but their influence on other, especially wild, animals remains poorly understood. So far, the studies that experimentally investigated the consequences of maternal THs focused on short-term effects, while early organisational e...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sarraude T,Hsu BY,Groothuis T,Ruuskanen S

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental question in ecology is how the success of a taxon changes through time and what drives this change. This question is commonly approached using trajectories averaged over a group of taxa. Using results from probability theory, we show analytically and using examples that averaged trajectories will be more...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hohmann N,Jarochowska E

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The active place avoidance task is a dry-arena task used to assess spatial navigation and memory in rodents. In this task, a subject is put on a rotating circular arena and avoids an invisible sector that is stable in relation to the room. Rotation of the arena means that the subject's avoidance must be active, otherw...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bahník Š,Stuchlík A

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide health, economic, and social burden, especially in developing countries. Drug-resistant TB is the most serious type of this burden. Thus, it is necessary to screen drug-resistant mutations by using a simple and rapid detection method. A total of 32 pairs of allele-specific PCR (AS-PCR)...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang P,Song Y,Xia X,Zhang AM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Context:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease with unknown etiology. Objective:Human plasma is comprised of over 10 orders of magnitude concentration of proteins and tissue leakages. The changes in the abundance of these proteins have played an important role in various human ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Madda R,Lin SC,Sun WH,Huang SL

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection and validation of proper distinguishing characters are of crucial importance in taxonomic revisions. The modern classifications of orchids utilize the molecular tools, but still the selection and identification of the material used in these studies is for the most part related to general species morpholo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jakubska-Busse A,Żołubak E,Łobas Z,Gola EM

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and apes, yawn contagion echoes emotional contagion, the basal layer of empathy. Hence, yawn contagion is a unique tool to compare empathy across species. If humans are the most empathic animal species, they should show the highest empathic response also at the level of emotional contagion. We gathered data ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Palagi E,Norscia I,Demuru E

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between different exercise modes and visuospatial working memory in healthy older adults. A cross-sectional design was adopted. A total of 111 healthy older adults were enrolled in the study. They were classified by the exercise-related questionnaire to be i...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo W,Wang B,Lu Y,Zhu Q,Shi Z,Ren J

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Mangroves are important coastal ecosystems known for high photosynthetic productivity and the ability to support marine food chains through supply of dissolved carbon or particular organic matter. Most of the carbon found in mangroves is produced by its vegetation and is decomposed in root associated sedimen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Taketani RG,Moitinho MA,Mauchline TH,Melo IS

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Flatfish undergo extreme morphological development and settle to a benthic in the adult stage, and are likely to be more susceptible to environmental stress. Heat shock proteins 70 (hsp70) are involved in embryonic development and stress response in metazoan animals. However, the evolutionary history and functions of ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu K,Hao X,Wang Q,Hou J,Lai X,Dong Z,Shao C

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of China's textile industry (TI) has led to severe water environmental stress. Water environmental stress of China's TI mainly comes from large quantities of discharged wastewater and chemical oxygen demand (COD). The sustainable development of the TI is realized to achieve the decoupling between...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li Y,Shen J,Lu L,Luo Y,Wang L,Shen M

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:High throughput DNA sequencing of bulk invertebrate samples or metabarcoding is becoming increasingly used to provide profiles of biological communities for environmental monitoring. As metabarcoding becomes more widely applied, new reference DNA barcodes linked to individual specimens identified by taxonomi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Carew ME,Coleman RA,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) populations have experienced dramatic declines since the mid-19th century along the southern portion of the species range, leading citizen groups to petition the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to list the species as endangered in the contiguous US. While there remai...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hart CJ,Kelly RP,Pearson SF

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid vectors based on bacteriophage integrases are important tools in molecular microbiology for the introduction of foreign DNA, especially into bacterial species where other systems for genetic manipulation are limited. Site specific integrases catalyze recombination between phage and bacterial attachment sites (...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Herisse M,Porter JL,Guerillot R,Tomita T,Goncalves Da Silva A,Seemann T,Howden BP,Stinear TP,Pidot SJ

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present the first two complete plastid genomes for Brunelliaceae, a Neotropical family with a single genus, Brunellia. We surveyed the entire plastid genome in order to find variable cpDNA regions for further phylogenetic analyses across the family. We sampled morphologically different species, B. antioquensis...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Valencia-D J,Murillo-A J,Orozco CI,Parra-O C,Neubig KM

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging tool for monitoring invasive and imperiled species, particularly at low densities. However, the factors that control eDNA production, transport, and persistence in aquatic systems remain poorly understood. For example, the extent to which carcasses produce detectable eDNA is unk...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Curtis AN,Larson ER

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with mental illness often experience stigmatization and encounter stereotypes such as being dangerous or unpredictable. To further improve measures against psychiatric stigma, it is of importance to understand its components. In this study, we attend to the step of separation between "us" and "th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Makowski AC,Mnich EE,Angermeyer MC,von dem Knesebeck O

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Limestone karsts of Southeast Asia can harbor high levels of endemism, but are highly fragmented, increasingly threatened, and their biodiversity is often poorly studied. This is true of the Padawan Limestone Area of Sarawak, Malaysia, home to the endemic Artocarpus annulatus, the closest known wild relative of two im...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dickinson L,Noble H,Gardner E,Puad ASA,Zakaria WNFW,Zerega NJC

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To explore the blood pressure response to different ablation points of renal denervation (RDN) in patients with resistant hypertension. Methods:A total of 42 cases with resistant hypertension treated by RDN in our center from 2013 to 2015 were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into two grou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang H,Li LY,Xiao RX,Zhang TC,Liu ZJ,Gao JQ

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zika virus (ZIKV) transmission has been reported in 67 countries/territories in the Oceania region and the Americas since 2015, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare ZIKV as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in February 2016, due to its strong association with medical comp...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hsieh YH

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00